Cruise Control Portfolios (CCP)  For ETFs, ETNs and Stocks  Almost all of the world's dominant investing vehicles are now being processed and ranked by the Maximum Gain per unit Risk methodology.   The large number of stock/ETF data sets  being processed has caused the output CCP tables to become too difficult to browse.        Consequently Data Mining techniques have been programmed to automatically extract the Top performing CCP scores.      Check out the new  CCP performance tables.       The majority of the stocks comprising the Hard Assets Producer Index have been added to the data sets being processed. This data set is being added as it may provide an alternative way to defend against inflation that will be driven by the trillions of dollars of fiat currency being created worldwide.

 

( 09/03/10 )  The equity market staged a rally this past week and displayed strong positive volume, which is a sign of strength. Also the market Indicators have flipped to all Green.     I suspect two forces are driving this market Up. One is that the Bond market has displayed a local Top, causing dollars to flow into stocks. The second force is that historical charts of the September-October time frame are very poor market performers except when elections are near.    It is important to realize that this market move Up, is occurring in the context of a well defined trading range and until it breaks out of this range , stopping and reversing ( PSAR )may still be appropriate.    Gold mining stocks posted large gains due to impending mergers. ( Andean Resources Up 47.44% )   Check Out the Gold page.         On a personal note I will look to short the market if any weakness presents itself, as the trend remains in a choppy sideways channel.  200% short the Russell 2000 via the  ETF TWM and The volatility ETF VXX should provide good gains on any decline. ( This is not a recommendation and is for information only.)       The below SP500 vs Build America Bond ( BAB ) displays the usual inverse money flows between bonds and stocks.

 

Proshares 200% Long    Proshares 200% Short

 

The U.S. Dollar Index  must be monitored, as it strongly influences the price of Precious Metals, Oil and commodities in general.        As the U.S. Dollar weakens foreign currencies are brought into play. Monitor the Currency ETFs.         Major Country ETFs      Major World Currencies     Major Market Indices          The below Institutional Index ( XII ) chart  displays what the Big Boys are doing.      Volatility: $VIX(SP500) StockCharts.com

Modern Portfolio Theory ( MPT )
applied to StockScouter Top 50 Stock Picks.

StockScouter historical performance

Note: StockScouter stocks are also ranked by the Maximum Gain
 per unit Risk methodology and are contained in the CCP tables.









    Fidelity's Select Sectors are actively managed funds that have historically performed very well. The below chart displays the percentage of Select Sectors above their 20 day EMA. This chart captures the intensity of the current market move.

 
 

SelectSectors.com Market Index ( SSX ) Hurst chart ( The SSx Indicator is the average of the aggregation of all Fidelity's Select sectors daily percentage changes.)

 

SelectSectors.com Market Index ( SSX ) Ribbon chart

 

SelectSectors.com Market Index ( SSX )  Oscillator  chart

 

SelectSectors.com Market Index ( SSX )  Internal Strength  chart

 

SelectSectors.com Market Index ( SSX )  Summation Index  chart

 

Table of Select Sectors and their corresponding ETF and or ETN and or Market Index in alphabetical order

 

Top  stocks underlying Fidelity Select Sector Portfolios

 

Comments and Info

 

Suggested StockCharts.com  chart settings     for exiting a Declining market.     Exit strategies are very important. Check Out the Parabolic SAR method

 
 

The “smart money” will keep trading the dips and rallies, even if the market as a whole goes nowhere for the next four years.      Frankly, whether you index, value hunt, diversify, buy growth stocks,  whatever—this is no time to invest in the market.      But it’s great time to be trader.

 

Please remember, that every "Hot Trend" will eventually peak out and the Decline, perhaps very rapidly. Recent examples are China(FXI), India(INP) and Natural-Gas(UNG ). Therefore to protect your gains you must have an exit strategy. The SelectSectors "Timing page" offers examples.

 

For decades Fidelity offered trading with their sectors based on  hourly pricing. They have now terminated hourly pricing and imposed onerous trading rules. For this reason I use the Fidelity Sectors to determine the "Best" sectors, but then purchase either the underlying stocks or corresponding ETFs, Holders, ETN etc.   As an example, Energy Services ( FSESX ) is currently a strong sector and Power Shares ETF, Dynamic Oil & Gas ( PXJ )  has comparable performance.   Utilities ( FSUTX ) has very strong long term performance and Vanguard's Utility ETF ( VPU ) has comparable performance. ( 5/12/07 ) Schippi